A fun, online game where you create a pet, play games, and participate in many other creative, interactive activities.

--- Just to make it completely clear, they do NOT senselessly freeze you, the boards are NOT overrun by 7-year-olds, and they are not way overcommercialized. Yes, they have advertisements; the staff have to get money somehow. Yes, they can freeze someone if they are doing something wrong.

But stop saying "neopets used to be c00l but now it is for l0zers who have no life. they freeze everyone and it is overrun by n00bz" That is a LIE, only people who seriously screwed up and got themselves frozen say that.

It is a fun game if you have some spare time.

Person 1: neopets is fun
Loser 1 (the guy that TRIES to act "cool" and says what everyone else says): no its not it's for losers
Person 1: Fine. You can think that, while i go off and have fun playing neopets.

Neopets was created for UNI students way back in the 90's. UNI students couldn't own pets, so how about a virtual one!?
Over the years, many websites marapets have actually copied the site. I love neopets. Its fun when you are bored, and great for hand eye coordination.
I dislike people who hate neopets. I love it. And many people do as well.

Marapets: Come on friends, lets go and put a costume on our pet! The look great when they are drawn by 3 year olds!

Neopets is an insanely addicting virtualpetwebsite. Even though it's full of ads (ever heard of the AdBlockFirefoxextension?), it's still fun. Yes, there are n00bs who beg and scam, but GUESS WHAT? You can report and block offending noobs, especially those who beg/scam/harass via Neomail. Think you got hacked? You were probably looking at onlineporn and a keylogger sniped your typing history--and maybe your PIN, too! And as someone mentioned in an earlier entry, the faeries are a bit scantily clad...but so is Tinkerbell and Ariel The Little Mermaid]! In fact, TNT )theneopetsteam is being quite appropriate compared to Disney. Keep it in perspective, people. And guess what? I've never been frozen for posting on the NeoBoards. The only people who get frozen are nublets who spam/harass/cheat/etc. You can chat on the BDC (BattleDome Chat) and have reasonably intelligent conversations with the people on the "restock and chat boards". And as far as the randomness of the current restocking system--patience grasshopper.

1. A worldwide virtual website on which you create pets. Using these pets you can do the following:
chat on boards (where you can get reported for abuse)
submit work for art, poetry, newspaper article and storytelling competitions and recieve a 'trophy'
play a wide variety of many many games to earn neopoints
join a guild which is a group of people with the same interests as you e.g a simpsons guild
fight with other pets online and take part in wars which the website creates interesting plots for
make neofriends by sending neomails
and much more fun stuff

WARNING As the neopets boards are monitered due to it being open to kids, users often find themselves frozen for not using the boards properly. This leads to hostility towards neopets from people that have been frozen before. It is also seen as a waste of time, which it may be, but a FUN waste of time.

I just love the Help Chat on neopets.com - the people are so friendly and have great avatars

Neopets is the greatest virtual community in existance. Dispite what a handful of people say, it is NOT dominated by adverts and comercialization, adverts appear on the site to prevent users having to pay to use Neopets. It was founded in 1999 by Adam Powell and Donna Williams, and has expanded to over a billion users worldwide.
The rules on Neopets are fairly strict, but by no means hard to follow; you ARE allowed to have more than one account, but not souly to make neopoints (this is only allowed on your main account), you are not allowed to post offensive comments on the message boards, and the list follows on fairly straight forwardly.
Neopoints (commonly abreiviated) to np is the national currency of Neopets.